Your engineers aren’t afraid of AI. They’re afraid of becoming junior again.
When you roll out AI coding tools, you expect pushback about job security and workflow disruption. What you get instead is something harder to fix: senior engineers watching AI produce in seconds what used to take them years to master.
This talk is about what’s really driving quiet resistance in your team and what you can do about it.
Panel: Engineering Reality
with AJ Fisher & Dave Hall & Krishna kanth Mundada
A moderated conversation closing the L3 Engineering Reality session. AJ Fisher leads a discussion with Dave Hall, Krishna Mundada, and Andy Kelk on when not to reach for an LLM, the real costs of AI in production, and what it means for engineering teams and careers.
Andy Kelk
Andy Kelk has spent 25 years building and scaling technology organisations. In senior leadership roles at REA Group, Marketplacer, Australia Post, and Wesfarmers OneDigital, he has architected platforms handling billions in transactions and grown engineering teams from 15 to 100+. He’s led AI adoption programmes across engineering organisations and seen firsthand how the human side of that change is consistently harder than the technical side.